This is should be a compatibility issue.

There is a customer has a HPUX IA 11.23 box which just can install with NBU6.5.6 instead of NBU7x. Run the command "bpclntcmd -sanclient 1" and see no error.

The customer also has a FT media server with NBU7.5.6. Run the command "nbftconfig -ls" and dosen't see the above san client.

Question:

Does we support the achiteture to put the NBU7x FT media server and the NBU6x san client together?

Thanks a lot for your answer in advance!

Hello All,

Currently we are using LTO5 tape drives and tapes, the backup are running at 3Kbps/sec, please suggest me to resolve this issue ASAP.

Windows 2008 R2.  NetBackup 7.1.  Suddenly receiving the following error running DIFF or FULL jobs.  Status 2 in NBU.

16:25:09.890 [5864.1552] <2> file_to_addrinfo: ../../libvlibs/vnet_addrinfo.c.6635: 0: fopen() failed: 2 0x00000002
16:25:09.890 [5864.1552] <2> file_to_addrinfo: ../../libvlibs/vnet_addrinfo.c.6636: 0: fopen() failed: C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\var\host_cache\11b\356b831b+veritas_pbx,1,0,2,1,0+us-bak-01.shl.prod.txt
16:25:09.906 [5864.1552] <2> file_to_addrinfo: ../../libvlibs/vnet_addrinfo.c.6635: 0: fopen() failed: 2 0x00000002
16:25:09.906 [5864.1552] <2> file_to_addrinfo: ../../libvlibs/vnet_addrinfo.c.6636: 0: fopen() failed: C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\var\host_cache\0c9\9e514ac9+0,1,2,0,1,0+172.26.1.80.txt
16:25:09.906 [5864.1552] <2> file_to_addrinfo: ../../libvlibs/vnet_addrinfo.c.6635: 0: fopen() failed: 2 0x00000002
16:25:09.906 [5864.1552] <2> file_to_addrinfo: ../../libvlibs/vnet_addrinfo.c.6636: 0: fopen() failed: C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\var\host_cache\11b\356b831b+vnetd,1,0,2,1,0+us-bak-01.shl.prod.txt
16:25:09.906 [5864.1552] <2> file_to_addrinfo: ../../libvlibs/vnet_addrinfo.c.6635: 0: fopen() failed: 2 0x00000002
16:25:09.906 [5864.1552] <2> file_to_addrinfo: ../../libvlibs/vnet_addrinfo.c.6636: 0: fopen() failed: C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\var\host_cache\11b\356b831b+bprd,1,0,2,1,0+us-bak-01.shl.prod.txt
16:25:10.093 [5864.1552] <2> vnet_pbxConnect: pbxConnectEx Succeeded
16:25:10.093 [5864.1552] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM 172.24.1.57.55357 TO 172.26.1.80.1556 fd = 596
16:25:10.967 [5864.1552] <4> CGlobalInformation::VCSVirtualNameList: INF - Veritas Cluster Server is not installed.
16:25:10.967 [5864.1552] <1> CGlobalInformation::VCSVirtualNameList:     CONTINUATION: - The system cannot find the path specified.
16:25:10.983 [5864.1552] <4> getServerName: Read server name from nb_master_config: us-bak-01.shl.prod
16:25:10.983 [5864.1552] <4> CDBIniParms::CDBIniParms: INF - NT User is SYSTEM
16:25:11.014 [5864.1552] <4> DBConnect: INF - Logging into SQL Server with DSN <NBMSSQL_5864_1552_1>, SQL userid <sa> handle <0x01069290>.
16:25:28.705 [5864.1552] <4> DBConnect: INF - Logging into SQL Server with DSN <NBMSSQL_5864_1552_1>, SQL userid <sa> handle <0x0106a4f0>.
16:25:46.522 [5864.1552] <4> CGlobalInformation::CreateDSN: INF - Error Creating ODBC data source name
16:25:46.522 [5864.1552] <1> CGlobalInformation::CreateDSN:     CONTINUATION: - Component not found in the registry
16:25:46.709 [5864.1552] <2> vnet_pbxConnect: pbxConnectEx Succeeded
16:25:46.709 [5864.1552] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM 172.24.1.57.55407 TO 172.26.1.80.1556 fd = 692
16:25:47.474 [5864.1552] <16> CDBbackmain::LoadUserLogin: ERR - Internal error. See the dbclient log for more information.
16:25:47.661 [5864.1552] <2> vnet_pbxConnect: pbxConnectEx Succeeded
16:25:47.661 [5864.1552] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM 172.24.1.57.55409 TO 172.26.1.80.1556 fd = 700
16:25:48.207 [5864.1552] <32> CDBbackmain::LoadUserLogin: ERR - Error 1 has been returned from GetCurrentDSN
16:25:48.222 [5864.1552] <4> CDBbackmain::dbbackup: INF - Results of executing <C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\DbExt\MsSql\lonsqlmon01_diff.bch>:

<0> operations succeeded. <0> operations failed.
16:25:48.394 [5864.1552] <2> vnet_pbxConnect: pbxConnectEx Succeeded
16:25:48.410 [5864.1552] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM 172.24.1.57.55411 TO 172.26.1.80.1556 fd = 628
 

Hello,

In laymens term, what is the process for to finally start using NBU 7.5.0.3 BMR.

We have had it a long time but it was never set up or used . I want to take advantage of it and hear what the basics are.

Thanks,

Hey all,

I encountered an interesting occurrence this morning when I was updating one of our test servers to the 7.5.0.1 patch.  Apparently, during the update, the CLT package installed fine but when it came to install the new bp package, the server ran out of space in the mount point.  This caused the server to end the update and now it thinks its a client and not a media server.

"install_netbppkg_trace.25978" 81 lines, 2793 characters

========== Unpacking package ==========
x SYMCnetbp.depot, 2494648320 bytes, 4872360 tape blocks

== Checking for pre-existing package ==
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "testserver"...
#
# Target:  testserver:/
#

# SYMCnetbp             7.5.0.0        NetBackup and Media Manager
  SYMCnetbp.NBfiles     7.5.0.0        NetBackup and Media Manager

==== Removing pre-existing package ====

=======  08/05/13 11:09:46 EDT  BEGIN swremove SESSION
         (non-interactive) (jobid=testserver-0629)

       * Session started for user "root@testserver".

       * Beginning Selection
       * Target connection succeeded for "testserver:/".
       * Software selections:
             SYMCnetbp.NBfiles,l=/usr,r=7.5.0.0,a=HP-UX_B.11.31_IA,v=Symantec,fr=7.5.0.0,fa=HP-UX_B.11.31_IA
       * Selection succeeded.

       * Beginning Analysis
       * Session selections have been saved in the file
         "/home/root/.sw/sessions/swremove.last".
       * "testserver:/":  There will be no attempt to mount filesystems
         that appear in the filesystem table.
       * Analysis succeeded.

       * Beginning Execution
       * The execution phase succeeded for "testserver:/".
       * Execution succeeded.

NOTE:    More information may be found in the agent logfile using the
         command "swjob -a log testserver-0629 @ testserver:/".

=======  08/05/13 11:09:51 EDT  END swremove SESSION (non-interactive)
         (jobid=testserver-0629)

========= Installing package ==========

=======  08/05/13 11:09:51 EDT  BEGIN swinstall SESSION
         (non-interactive) (jobid=testserver-0630)

       * Session started for user "root@testserver".

       * Beginning Selection
       * Target connection succeeded for "testserver:/".
       * Source:                 /tmp/nb_pkg/SYMCnetbp.depot
       * Targets:                testserver:/
       * Software selections:
             SYMCnetbp.NBfiles,r=7.5.0.1,a=HP-UX_B.11.31_IA,v=Symantec,fr=7.5.0.1,fa=HP-UX_B.11.31_IA
       * Selection succeeded.

       * Beginning Analysis and Execution
       * Session selections have been saved in the file
         "/home/root/.sw/sessions/swinstall.last".
       * "testserver:/":  There will be no attempt to mount filesystems
         that appear in the filesystem table.
ERROR:   "testserver:/":  This operation will exceed the absolute limit
         of disk space on 1 volumes.
       * The analysis phase failed for "testserver:/".
"install_netbppkg_trace.25978" 81 lines, 2793 characters

========== Unpacking package ==========
x SYMCnetbp.depot, 2494648320 bytes, 4872360 tape blocks

== Checking for pre-existing package ==
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "testserver"...
#
# Target:  testserver:/
#

# SYMCnetbp             7.5.0.0        NetBackup and Media Manager
  SYMCnetbp.NBfiles     7.5.0.0        NetBackup and Media Manager

==== Removing pre-existing package ====

=======  08/05/13 11:09:46 EDT  BEGIN swremove SESSION
         (non-interactive) (jobid=testserver-0629)

       * Session started for user "root@testserver".

       * Beginning Selection
       * Target connection succeeded for "testserver:/".
       * Software selections:
             SYMCnetbp.NBfiles,l=/usr,r=7.5.0.0,a=HP-UX_B.11.31_IA,v=Symantec,fr=7.5.0.0,fa=HP-UX_B.11.31_IA
       * Selection succeeded.

       * Beginning Analysis
       * Session selections have been saved in the file
         "/home/root/.sw/sessions/swremove.last".
       * "testserver:/":  There will be no attempt to mount filesystems
         that appear in the filesystem table.
       * Analysis succeeded.

       * Beginning Execution
       * The execution phase succeeded for "testserver:/".
       * Execution succeeded.

NOTE:    More information may be found in the agent logfile using the
         command "swjob -a log testserver-0629 @ testserver:/".

=======  08/05/13 11:09:51 EDT  END swremove SESSION (non-interactive)
         (jobid=testserver-0629)

========= Installing package ==========

=======  08/05/13 11:09:51 EDT  BEGIN swinstall SESSION
         (non-interactive) (jobid=testserver-0630)

       * Session started for user "root@testserver".

       * Beginning Selection
       * Target connection succeeded for "testserver:/".
       * Source:                 /tmp/nb_pkg/SYMCnetbp.depot
       * Targets:                testserver:/
       * Software selections:
             SYMCnetbp.NBfiles,r=7.5.0.1,a=HP-UX_B.11.31_IA,v=Symantec,fr=7.5.0.1,fa=HP-UX_B.11.31_IA
       * Selection succeeded.

       * Beginning Analysis and Execution
       * Session selections have been saved in the file
         "/home/root/.sw/sessions/swinstall.last".
       * "testserver:/":  There will be no attempt to mount filesystems
         that appear in the filesystem table.
ERROR:   "testserver:/":  This operation will exceed the absolute limit
         of disk space on 1 volumes.
       * The analysis phase failed for "testserver:/".
       * Analysis and Execution had errors.

ERROR:   More information may be found in the agent logfile using the
         command "swjob -a log testserver-0630 @ testserver:/".

=======  08/05/13 11:09:53 EDT  END swinstall SESSION (non-interactive)
         (jobid=testserver-0630)

 

[testserver:/netbackup] ./NB_update.install

There are 2 packs available in /netbackup:
(* denotes installed pack)

        NB_7.5.0.1
        NB_CLT_7.5.0.1 *

Enter pack name (or q) [q]: NB_7.5.0.1

ERROR: This is not a NetBackup Server.
Selected pack NB_7.5.0.1 will not be installed.

Just thought I would share this information and to see if anyone else has seen this occur before.  My only option at this point seems to be to re-install the entire suite from scatch starting at the base 7.5 install.  This time of course, ensuring that disk space is available. 

I am hoping to be able to trigger the VM backup of a client (VMWare 4.1), from the client itself. I have tried to use the bpbackup command from the client, but cannot seem to get it to run the VM backup.

The reason I want to do this is because I have a handful of servers that run batch operations every night, and their completion times vary. Backups need to be scheduled as part of the task sequence, so that they do not interfere with system resources while the batch jobs run, not to mention the completed files that need to be backed up.

I have tried to figure out the fail point from the logs, but am not having a lot of luck. Then it hit me. Is it because I canot set up user level backups on a VM job that this is not possible?

If so, what other options might I have to be able to accomplish this?

Hi All,

I Need to generate a report for the "started" and "ended" time under the detailed status tab of each job.

Master/Media server on Windows.

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,

Srinivasan VD

Dear Experts,

I have setup a SAN client and I think it is setup well as I can see target devices on client and media server has two ports in target mode. Also I made sure that the Fibre Transport setting for the client is set to Always.

The master server is 7.5.0.6 clustered master server on windows 2008 R2 and media servers are Netbackup appliances 5230 with 2.5.3(7.5.0.6) code. The SAN Client is Windows 2008 R2 machine with QLogic card and installed with NBU 7506.

When i run the backup the data is getting backed up at speed of 64Mbps which I consider very low. In the activity monitor job detailed status I can see that it is using FC as transport medium and I can see that it is setting the required buffer settings for FC but the same time I see following which says there was no data sent over FC. This is very confusing. Please help me clarify this.

Report=PDDO Stats for (jum-nbu-5230b): scanned: 7270744 KB, CR sent: 1876733 KB, CR sent over FC: 0 KB, dedup: 74.2%

Regards,

Hi all,

I know the default volume pools on NBU are,

None,Datastore,Netbackup and scratch pools.

Kindly explain me difference & use of each pool.

Hi,

Is there a way of easily show all files that has been backed up onto a defined tape?

I've search but can't find a good way of doing this.

Is ther a log file that will show all files? or is there an option to turn that on?
This is for "validation" purposes only and we could disable this log when done.

-Roland

Whenever I try to take backup using Netbackup 7.5 on my fuse filesystem, backup command exits giving error

EXIT STATUS 84: media write error

Do we need to do any addional setting for the same?

Hi All,

I was reading the Multistreaming configuration part and came accross with the below Unset and Unset_All Directives in Admin Guide which I didnot understand.

Could somebody pls make me understand in simple words what is this Unset and Unset_All, its work with an example? Admin Guide is sometimes too difficult to grasp the concept :(

Estimados,

Les comento, mensualmente se realizan dos respaldo Full que son un Historico y un Duplicado_Historico el cual es enviado fuera de la empresa, donde solo nos quedamos con el historico, resulta que hoy trate de recuperar información de este respaldo full mensual, y me he encontrado con la sorpresa que en vez de pedirme la cinta correspondiente al respaldo HISTORICO que es el que manejamos acá en la empresa, me pide el que no se encuentra en nuestras dependencias, resulta que el mes anterior funcionaba sin ningun problema esta politica, y este mes es como si hubiera invertido dicha politica.

Me resulta extraño, ya que una vez que voy al catalogo a averiguar por el número de cinta que me esta pidiendo para poder recuperar la información me dice que corresponde al Duplicado_Historico, yo pensaba que me habia confundido y habia enviado las cintas mal, pero sin embargo todo esta configurado correctamente.

Ojala me puedan ayudar.

Ahora bien revisando el Media, hay una opción "CHANGE", cuando presionas sobre una cinta determinada que permite cambiar el POOL NAME de la cinta.... Esto sería una buena opción, como para cambiar el Pool name de las cintas y me comience a pedir la cinta correspondiente al historico que tenemos en nuestras dependencias y no el que se encuentra fuera?

what are the various steps i have to take befor and after IBM lib firmware upgrade.

Is there a way, outside of using barcode rules, to specify tapes that are put into a specific library automatically get put into a specific volume pool? We have a new remote site with a library, however some of their barcodes partially overlap what we currently have in the environment. (i.e. 020xxxx.) I'd be content if we just said "tapes that are put into this library, with no regards to barcodes, are automatically assigned to this volume pool."

Or am I just dreaming?

NBU 7.5.0.5 enviroment

Netbackup version: 7.1.0.4

OS: Win 2k3, R2, 64bit

after running bpexpidate command to extend expiry date of backup id, BAR is still displacing initial expiration date of the backup image. However,checking the client on image on disks report, i could see that the new expiration date has been modified to new date. I'm just curious why the new date isn't displaying on the backup sets on BAR. Please i need your help.

Netbackup version 7.5.0.5

Windows 2008 server

Sharepoint is on a 2008 server

Here is what I see in the Status

Hello all and thanks for any help.  We have been given an Informix client to backup that is unable to communicate with our master server.  The meida server and informix client can connect over the same VLAN but the master does not have the required vlan.  We can do file level backups, but we are unable to get the Informix piece to work.  My question is.  Does the client have to be able to talk to the master server in order for the informix backup to backup?  We get error:

15:16:08.050 [14874] <2> bprd_connect: Cannot connect to server MASTERSERVER automatically: 25
15:16:08.050 [14874] <2> bprd_connect: Cannot connect to server MASTERSERVER
15:16:08.050 [14874] <2> bprd_connect:    errno = 150 - Operation now in progress
15:16:08.050 [14874] <2> bprd_get_features: bprd_connect(MASTERSERVER) failed, cannot connect on socket (25)
15:16:08.050 [14874] <16> bsa_checkFeatureId: unable to check if feature <37> is licensed
15:16:08.051 [14874] <16> bsa_checkFeatureId: Server exit status = 25: cannot connect on socket
15:16:08.051 [14874] <16> VxBSAInit: ERR - The license for the requested feature is not available.
 

Hi,

I do a Full backup on Saturdays and then Incremental on all other days on a RMAN backup dir.
That is a RMAN backing up to files, I then take an ordinary UNIX files backup with netbackup on that dir.

Due to a bug in RMAN the DBA copies some control files to a save directory.
We have 5 different backup dirs backup1 - backup5 and the save directory.
On Saturdays everythings gets backed up fine (FULL).
On the following Sunday we do an INC backup of the same basedir (/path).
/path/backup1 gets backed up fine, which is the latest RMAN backup (new files since FULL)
/path/save where there is more new files (since FULL) is not backed up.

I used bplist to see what files gets backed up and the save directory is indeed empty.

What could be wrong here?

- Roland

All,

I am in the middle of migrating/splitting a NetBackup environment for two clients; they were one company and are now splitting up and migrating backups, clients, etc.; Let's call them Client A and Client B, and I will make use of these terms to outline who owns what below:

Original NetBackup environment:

• Client A & Client B
• Master Server A  - 7.1.0.4
• A number of media servers
• DD990-Prod-ClientA
• DD990-DR-ClientA

Client B purchased a pair of Data Domain DD860s and duplicated existing Client B backup images as Copy 3 to one of these; so in the original environment, it looks like this:

• Client A copy 1 backups on DD990-Prod-ClientA
• Client A copy 2 backups on DD990-DR-ClientA
• Client B copy 3 backups on DD860-Prod-ClientB

I have built a new NetBackup environment for Client B with:

• New master server name (unavoidable) Master Server B - 7.1.0.4
• New media server names (unavoidable)
• Pointing at existing DD860-PROD-ClientB disk pool with same DD hostname, Diskpool name.

We took a full catalog backup of Master Server A to DD860-Prod-ClientB. After refering to this post: http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/how-can-i-get-remote-nbu-env-ostdatadomain-see-duplicated-images-another-nbu-env#comment-6664681, I successfully performed the following:

1. nbcatsync -sync_dr_file <dr_file> which changed @aaaaU to @aaaaf to allow the catalog recovery to run
2. bprecover -wizard to perform a partial catalog recovery of images and configuration file only

Now for my questions:

1. The recovered catalog contains information for Client A policies and backups which we can't see on Master Server B and are not interested in; is there any way I can easily prune this information BEFORE I run nbcatsync -backupid to fix the device id in the headers of the backups I do want to keep?
2. Which backupid do I use in the nbcatsync -backupid command? The backupid for the Catalog Backup or the backupid for an individual backup I want to access? 
3. I understand that for this step, nbcatsync command may not be reccommended due to the time required to search for inaccessible backup images based on this http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH160521 but hints that it should be enhanced in a later version; should I perform the planned inplace upgrade to NBU 7.5.0.6 before running this step?

I know this is a long and detailed post :-) I appreciate any comments, advice, or wisdom from the field.

Regards,

Jonathan